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Monday, February 18, 2008

Inspired by my friend, Michelle over at My Semblance of Sanity, I'm doing a Gross Food Find Contest. You know, since I can't manage to go a week without finding some disgusting food item left somewhere in my house.Joe found this in Jackson's bed while helping him look for his tin whistle. Leave me a comment with your guess as to what on earth it is and the first person with the most correct answer will win. I'll annouce the winner on Friday. The prize will be a set of new Tupperware containers to help keep your food fresh even when it's been in a backpack for a month. :)Mmmmmm, now that's good eats!

I'm gonna have to go with grilled cheese sandwich (or ex-sandwich anyway). I could use some new Tupperware. My daughters keep using mine to take spaghetti to school for lunch. By the time they remember to put it in the sink it looks like a tribble nested in it. Argh!

Ugh it eat my previous comment...here we go again: My guess is a sausage and egg sandwich. Whatever it is, it is beyond NASTY!!! My children, thank GOD, do not eat anywhere but the kitchen table, and immediately go and wash their hands and face when they are finished. I dont know what I would do if I found something like that in their room...DIE probably!!! What in the world was he thinking?!?!?!?

Some sort of a HotPocket type thing. I know... a pepperoni roll?! Or rather just a cheese roll!

Let me put it this way, dough wrapped around a cheese type substance, baked and then left in a container in a backpack that was dumped on a child's bed when said child came home from school. It then sat in/on/under the bed for at least a full week, if not two. Developing into this amazing pastry that would be loved by the fat rat on ratatouille . ;)

Yikes!! Looks like a good way to stick to a diet! BTW, I hate to ask b/c I know you mentioned earlier it wasn't going so well with Weight Watchers, but wanted to see if you got back on board. I know it's tough tho, I still struggle to stay on track after years of being a "lifer" with them so I totally empathize. If you need a little inspiration or just a giggle I recently did a blog post on the subject called "Weight Watching, Gaining, Losing, & Maintaining" (Yeah, I know, in all your free time to read!!)

I don't know what everyone's problem is...they obviously don't have a clue what it's like to have six kids...eat only at the table, whatever. Wash their hands and face immediately after, give me a break.

The fave at my house was a half-dozen eggs found under my son's bed...carton in the fridge...did he carry them upstairs one by one? He told me it was his food storage...just in case. See, these kids are thinkin'. In a big family, they have to look out for themselves!

It IS a mildewed mess that I believe looks like it has a spider's egg sack on it. The 3rd picture looks like that might have been an ear at some point, and the last picture is of something I sneezed up last week while not taking my allergy medicine. As for what it was a casserole with a piece of bread. Please tell me it was in some kind of container or you threw away the sheets it was found in!

I thought we were gross cleaning tonight to try to find where the throw up smell is coming from (two little ones have been throwing up for a couple days) we found it, between the cushions of the leather couch. Yeah. Anyway, I am guessing a frozen rhoads roll, thawned with butter.

My 8 year old son guesses a turkey on wheat sandwich. He also thinks it is gross and we agree that any food that he doesn't want to eat he will just throw away. In the trash. Where I believe several of my knives have gone, I'm guessing after they were dipped in the peanut butter jar.

Well it is obviously a penicillin factory at work. With the cold weather us IL folk are having and the recession the economy is facing; you need to pinch pennies somewhere in case you get the super bacteria germ of the decade infestation.

Oh thank GOD you don't live here in Florida! You'd have a trail of ants leading you to the offending item! That is, if the larger varieties didn't get it first. Yeecch. I am a __freak__ about no food in the bedrooms. You would be too if you had survived my insectitales. I almost wish that I lived up north at times! But I get over it at 80 degrees plus times like this week. Kay, now that you hate my smug little arse... I will guess that it's a lemon pudding pie. It definately looks pie crusty under that mold. Pretty flaky actually. Pillsburyish. Held up rather well!

Pizza crust--and what's with these people guessing cake!?!?! What kid stashes a cupcake and doesn't get back to it (or have it stolen by a sibling/desperate-Weight-Watcher-Mom-in-need-of-dessert. "Look honey, no points...salvage finds in the kids' beds don't count!!!!"

Ok, it is looking a lil flakey. So I would guess fish. Looking a lil orange so I guess I will go for Salmon over tuna. Salmon. But what is it doing in a kid bedroom. My kids wont even touch salmon. I give you a high five for even getting your kiddos to touch fish even if it is with their fingers.

It's gotta be lasagna...or some sort of layered pasta! I've seen this varment before!

TRUE STORY...my daughter was about 8 y.o. when one day, she came home from school absolutely FAMISHED. She plopped open the fridge, and grabbed an old pork chop out of a plastic bag. "WWWWHHHHHOOOOA!" I yelled out. "That's too old to eat!" Her response? "Well, what have you got in there for? To fool hungry little children?????!!!!"

The first photo makes me think it's a bagel, the 2nd a rice cake or a bagel and the last possibly peanut butter on bread/bagel. The third photo has me completely stumped. Whatever it is it sure is gross and thankfully aside from the numerous beverages I find splashed all over my house (including the Simpsons monopoly game that is permanently stuck to the underside of my coffee table/games box thanks to babies up-ending chocolate milk and it seeping through the cracks in the wood)I haven't found any nasty 'what was once' food items.

Ya know, I was thinking of posting the back pack gunk too, but I need a clairvoyant reader to tell me what it is. I didn't post last time cuz I found it on the way out the door when I was wondering what fruit flies were doing flying around above the backpacks hanging on their hooks there by the door in the dead of winter. I found out that I need to look in the side pocket more often. I would've taken a picture, but being in a big hurry, I couldn't! The world will never know what it was. This one is tricky with the different angles. Some definitely look like a salmon baked in koolaid but others look more like cheesecake. Ick!

Yuck!I think it is - I mean was - a grilled cheese sandwich or cheese pizza, I'd say from approximately 6 1/2 weeks ago.Again, YUCK!!!I hope Joe disposed of the gloves he used to retrieve this from the bed. LOL.

Definitely going with a hunk o cheese. My 4 yo sneaks that often, she calls herself the "Cheese Monster". Found a quarter pound chunk still in it's ziploc, complete with a Pampered Chef paring knife so she could cut her finger off while trying to slice up her midnight snack, nestled snugly in a pocket of her over the door shoe hanger. Apparently she'd forgotten about her stashed snack, it looked like it had been a few weeks.

I thought at first - grilled cheese! Someone already guessed that. Then I thought, grilled ham and cheddar cheese. Nope, someone guessed that, too. So I'm going WAY out on a limb here - is it (or should I say WAS it) quiche of some sort?

Oh boy - a corner piece of either baked ziti or lasagna? But I just can't imagine either of those being transported to a bedroom with or without a plate and left in a bed. So I'll guess one more - maybe one of those tastycake things - like a butterscotch krimpet?

Okay, first, I'm having issues seeing the page at all....got the aweful screen of death...or rather, photobucket saying that you've exceeded your bandwidth....makes it very difficult to read things. However, those pictures are just plain disgusting...I'd say it was either a pizza crust, or a peanut butter and jelly sandwich...either way, DISGUSTIN!

Really, I ignore what it was, but I can suppose what it is actually, a kind of lichen on a something fossilised. Maybe, some mushrooms, and I hear some acarids yelling "yum!". Can you give us a clue? What does it smell?Oh, finally, I won't be able to come at your home for diner as scheduled. No, really, I can't :)catherine

Ok, now that I can see the pics, I don't need tupperware that badly. I just need to quit looking at that before I barf. Am I right that your son has a captain's bed and when you say it was in his bed, you don't mean between the sheets? Please say that's the case. My 4 year old looked at the pictures and said, "GRRRROSSSSS!" Hopefully he keeps that mindset.

Oh my! Maybe I'm weird, but my first thought wasn't about the food, but about HOW OFTEN DO THE SHEETS GET CHANGED???? LOL Something that far into the "process" would need to be there quite sometime, and it would seem that it would need some moisture for that much fluff to appear like cotton. I'm thinking some type of sandwich also - but the old cheese I find is hard - but maybe the moisture of the bread changes the chemistry? I'm going to say tuna fish sandwhich... mayo would have that much moisture... hmmm what did it smell like??? And did you get the sheets clean??? Do you need a new set of sheets, matress pad, matress? after that??? yum!Pam (Seattle)

PS: I could use some new Tupperware! I have orange and green from my mom's 70's kitchen - I bet I could sell it on e-bay in the vintage area! hmmm I could hire you to write the ad!

I'm not even going to guess since soo many people had some great ideas. What amazes me, is he actually slept with this in his bed!! Am I right? eww!! and here I get blown away at how many pairs of socks are in my nine year olds bed!! I feel for you Dawn!!!

My guess is a blueberry muffin. And too funny reading all the prim and proper mom responses that they don't allow food in the bedrooms. I'm sure you must encourage the moldy buffet idea b/c we all know that if you didn't "allow" it, it would never happen. HAHA!!!! That theory worked wonders for us until we caught our kids via the mouse that was going back and forth between their rooms. Only in heaven will we have kids that never disobey!